st said:
Do registry operations, like mass addition, cause related keys/values
data to be stored non-continuous in Registry files?
No, not really. Unused areas of it can appear from leftover uninstalls
and such but as a rule they won't hurt anything and aren't noticeable.
There are some 3rd party programs that can "compact", or rearrange the
order of things being called to improve the efficiency some. One such
program would be ntregopt.
The registry is essentially a database, so fragmentation in the sense
of what you find on a disk drive isn't an issue. A record in the
database may or may not be called, depending, and it either holds data
or it doesn't.
Not to be confused with registry cleaners: Those are an entirely
different animal.
Are you having specific problems, or just looking around?
HTH,
Twayne
